As the United States becomes a more racially and ethnically diverse nation, health care systems and providers need to respond to patients’ varied perspectives, values, and behaviors about health and well-being. Failure to understand and manage social and cultural differences may have significant health consequences for minority groups in particular. Support your response by including current documentation explaining the need for this continuing education activity from journals,...
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Roberto Dansie, PhD
Faculty
Psychosocial Trauma Institute
Missouri School of Medicine
Exercise and nutrition play a key role in helping persons with spinal cord injury reduce the incidence of secondary complications and to improve activity level, which can impact the person’s overall QoL and community integration.
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David R. Gater Jr, MD, PhD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
Despite improvements in SCI medical management, rehospitalization rates remain high. It has been estimated that 32% of medical costs in the first 2 years after injury was directly attributed to secondary medical complications and patients with SCI still present a high prevalence of secondary complications many years after their rehabilitation.
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Sara Salles, DO
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
College of Medicine
University of...
